News

18 Jul

Charlotte Large, project manager at the P.E.I. Watershed Alliance discusses watershed groups' efforts to combat anoxic events by collaborating with farmers to reduce nutrient runoff. 🌿💧 The alliance, which represents 25 watershed groups across the province, works to prevent harmful algae blooms and oxygen depletion in estuaries. 🌱 Education and outreach are...

14:12 / News
07 Feb

by Vivian Ulinwa published on Monday, February 5th, 2024, in The Guardian (online) A grazing workshop for P.E.I. farmers held in O'leary on Jan. 25 aimed to promote pasture management and increase yield for local farmers. The living lab workshop was a partnership between Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the East-prince Agri-environment...

12:02 / News
30 Jan

The PEI Watershed Alliance, the umbrella organization that supports all 25 watershed groups on PEI was awarded almost a million dollars in funding in October of 2023 to assist watershed groups in the recovery and restoration of their areas post-Fiona. All of our groups have been hard at work rebuilding, restoring, and clearing...

13:49 / News
30 Jan

A woodchip bioreactor (nitrate filtra­tion system) was installed in a field over­looking the Seal River estuary in the fall and was aimed at providing valuable data about the severity of nitrate pollution in the area. The pilot project is a collabora­tion of Agri-Watershed Partnership, Pis­quid River Enhancement Project Inc (PREP) and Shady Lane Farms. The Seal River...

11:53 / News